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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB C. WOLFE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PRINTERS FURNITURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of LettersPatent No. 508,263,dated November7, 1893.

Application filed December 22, 1892- $erial No. 456,059. (Model-J To allwhom it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, JACOB O. WOLFE, of New York city, in the county andState of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement inPrinters Furniture, of which My invention relates to an improvement inprinters furniture, and it has for its object to provide an article offurniture which will present a maximum of bearing surface and yet be ofminimum weight.

A further object of the invention is to so construct the article offurniture that it may be expeditiously and conveniently cast, andwhereby also a facing of uniform thickness will be secured, while thebody of the article will be of considerably less thickness than thefacing and also be uniform.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth and pointed out inthe claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar figures of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the article of furniture. Fig. 2 is atransverse section of the same.

In carrying out the invention the article of furniture may be of anydesired dimensions. It is cast, or otherwise constructed, preferablycast, however, inone piece and of any suitable metal, as metal or itsequivalent only is employed in the construction of the article; that isto say no wood or other fillings are employed.

The top and bottom of the article of furniture are alike in shape andconstruction, as upon both the top and bottom face, at the side andends, a rib 10 is formed, and this rib may be termed a marginal one, asit extends entirely around the said faces. Those portions of the top andbottom pieces surrounded by the ribs are depressed centrally andlongitudinally, as illustratedat 11 in the drawings, whereby the saidtop andbottom surfaces incline downward from each side rib in directionof the center. The ends of the furniture are made perfectly flat, and ineach side a series of pockets 12, is produced. The pockets extend inwardto a central longitudinal wall 13, this wall being immediately betweenthe top and bottom depressions 11; and the upper and lower innersurfaces of the pockets, designated respectively as 14 and 15, areinclined from the wall 13 outward, the upper surface facing in anupwardly direction and the lower surface in a downwardly direction, thedegree of inclination of these two faces corresponding to theinclination of the upper and'lower faces of the article. By this means auniform thickness of metal is secured throughout the top and bottom ofthe article of furniture with the exception of at the margin where therib slightlyincreases the thickness of the metal.

The partitions 16, separating the pockets are inclined from the wall 13outward in direction of the sides of the article. The partitions'areallof uniform thickness, and by thus inclining the ends and the top andbottom surfaces of the pockets the cores employed in the process ofcasting the article may be readily withdrawn.

It will be observed that when an article of furniture. is constructed ashas been above set forth ample bearing surface is obtained, while thearticle .is exc'eedinglylight in weight, and

'fu'rther'that a marginal bearing surface only is provided at the topand at the bottom, the major portion of these faces not engaging withthe support upon which the article of furniture is to be placed.

An article of furniture constructed as above set forth has a finishedand neat appearance, may be readily and conveniently handled, and everysurface presented to the type or to the. form is true.

If in practice it is found desirable, electrotype or stereotype mattermay be produced upon one face of the block, or one face of the block maycontain one or more letters; and it will be observed that as an articleof printers furniture the block consistsof practically a hollow bodyprovided with depressed or sunken upper and lower faces, and marginalribs upon said faces, which afford ample bearing surfaces without addingmaterially to the weight of the block. The depressions may be deeper ormore shallow than shown, in

which event the pockets are proportionally increased or decreased.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire'tosecure by Letters 5 Patent 1. An article of printers furniture,comprising a hollow block having its top and bottom recessed, thebottoms of the recess being inclined toward the center, and providedwith 10 a longitudinal central wall and transverse partitions extendingfrom the central wall and forming a plurality of pockets in each side,substantially as described.

and described.

JACOB C. WOLFE. Witnesses:

H. H. W001), J. L. FERRIS.

